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A RARE GILT AND POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF IZUNA GONGEN
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2023年06月16日 开拍 / 2023年06月14日 截止委托
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A RARE GILT AND POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF IZUNA GONGEN

Japan, 16th-17th century, late Muromachi (1336-1573) to early Edo period (1615-1868)

Well carved and finely painted to depict the blue-skinned winged tengu-like deity with wrathful expression standing atop a plump fox over a compressed globular base with openworked foliate design raised on a naturalistically carved gilt-lacquered rockwork base further supporting a small gilt-lacquered stupa as well as a metal candle stick with a small wax candle. The deity is holding a gilt sword in his right hand and a metal wire rope with two glass beads in his left. He is wearing long flowing robes decorated with foliate and diapered designs as well as a metal necklace suspending glass beads. His face is well-detailed with narrowed eyes, thick furrowed brows, and a long beak. He is backed by red-painted metal flames which subtly convey the beak and comb of a chicken.

HEIGHT 32.8 cm

Condition: Good condition with some wear, minor flaking and small losses to lacquer and pigments, few minor age cracks, minor dents to flame. The stupa and candlestick are later-mounted attributes for worship.

Izuna Gongen, also called Izuna Myojin and enshrined in Izuna Shrine in Nagano, represents the kami of Mount Iizuna. Iconographically, Izuna Gongen is usually depicted in the form of a tengu riding a white fox. This depiction resembles that of Akiba Daigongen, the god of fire prevention at Akibayama Sanjakubo, located in Shuchigun, Totomi Province, and associated with Fudo Myo-o. Another tengu depicted atop a white fox (and thus probably linked to Dakiniten-Benzaiten) is Doryo Daigongen, who was a mountain ascetic before becoming a Soto Zen monk. He was eventually appointed as head cook and administrator at Daiyuzan Temple in Kanagawa Prefecture. After his death in 1411, legend says he transformed into a tengu and became the monastery’s guardian. According to Duncan Williams in The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Soto Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan (2005), “[upon his death] his body was engulfed in flames as he appeared transformed and stood on a white fox to promise a life free from illness and full of riches for those who sincerely worshipped him.”

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